A Conversation With BuzzFeed's Michael Hastings
FBDC posted an item yesterday highlighting a twitter fight between Richard Grenell, former foreign policy spokesman to the Mitt Romney campaign, and BuzzFeed‘s Michael Hastings.
We did the norm: Cite the tweets, ask both sides for comment, provide clarification and publish.
Hastings sent us a comment after his boss Ben Smith did. We included both in the post.
After the story ran, we received an email from Hastings that said the following:
“[I]t’s generally an unsound journalistic practice to rely on the advice of public relations people to determine who is/isn’t a good journalist.
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